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nigelswift May 6, 2011 06:49:51
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
(Nigel, I was waiting in the queue at the cinema last night and I could hear two women next to me discussing their homeopathy tablets and even more gah-producing, kinesiology.
It's Friday, let's set Nigel off for the weekend! ;)
D'you reckon they were fox hunters?!


Mr Sanctuary, that's a good picture. It makes it clear you could only ever see the sun through the hole from an oblique angle, which means the shape - or even the existence - of 90% of the hole is totally irrelevant to any astronomical function doesn't it?

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary May 6, 2011 07:33:17
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Rhiannon wrote:
(Nigel, I was waiting in the queue at the cinema last night and I could hear two women next to me discussing their homeopathy tablets and even more gah-producing, kinesiology.
It's Friday, let's set Nigel off for the weekend! ;)
D'you reckon they were fox hunters?!


Mr Sanctuary, that's a good picture. It makes it clear you could only ever see the sun through the hole from an oblique angle, which means the shape - or even the existence - of 90% of the hole is totally irrelevant to any astronomical function doesn't it?

I would have thought so Nigel but I'm not really clued in to that stuff. 'Most' people are of the oinion that the whole shebang was covered over on completion which would make a nonsense of all of it anyway! I don't purposely wish to down other peoples research because I know how much time we all put into these things, but I just can't see any of this myself. It is an extremely old build showing serious signs of movement which is par for the course and can no way reflect on what it was like at birth!

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves May 6, 2011 09:37:03
Replying to nigelswift

Without producing examples or statistical analysis I think that there were holed stones placed upright around monuments. Maybe just one of them. What the holes' symbolic purpose was we will never know but they certainly weren't for tethering horses. Or sheep. For long. When the puritan Saxons came along, with their big hammers and superstitious beliefs, these already weakened stones were easiest to fragment. Like cupmarks the purpose of the piercing may have had more to do with the making than the object itself, particularly if it was subsequently buried.

Sonicator at full blast - I now leave it running when I go out on errands. If it's working properly the water warms up. Now I know the hair rings are ancient they have taken on a precious aura.